Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Summoned back to court early this week, the convicted men heard their fate: Mayor Hayes (who has not yet resigned) and Friend Leary, ten to 15 years in jail; for Aide Kelly, seven to twelve years...
...British sound: a revolver shot, then another. White-faced, a clerk ran to the street shouting: "Something terrible has happened." To a hospital in Aberdeen went Board Secretary William Macintosh, shot in the head, and Director Bailie W. McDougall Gordon, senior magistrate of Peterhead, shot in the leg. To jail went gun-toting Board Chairman Anderson...
...Federal Communications Commission, which got on the job late, but with the meagre direction finder information available, at week's end had narrowed down its search for the S O S sender to the vicinity of Tampa Bay. Possible penalty: $10,000 fine, two years in jail...
Marriage Revealed. William Robert Bradley, 21, orange-haired Sixth Earl of Craven; and Irene Meyrick, daughter of the late in-and-out-of-jail Mrs. Kate ("Queen of the London Night Clubs") Meyrick. The Earl's gallant, one-legged father caused a newspaper uproar in 1926 by eloping with another earl's wife, Countess ("Moral Turpitude") Cathcart...
Catching sight of a young woman, Newsboy Heckman accompanied her for half a block, declaring: "The Lord's your shepherd! The Lord's your shepherd! My Goodness, you're getting better looking every day!" After such outbursts police often take him to jail to cool off for a spell...